“Thank you, Mr. Stewart, for your great introduction and your warm welcome to ZESTRON in Prince William County. We are glad to be here and do appreciate the help you and your people have given to us.

Good afternoon to everybody and thank you all for coming today to the inauguration of our brand new facility. The whole ZESTRON team and certainly myself do appreciate very much.

For those who do not know me – my name is Oskar Wack and I am the founder and president of ZESTRON Corporation and it’s sister company Wack Chemie back in Germany. Thus I am actually the old guy on the block, so to say.

I am more than happy to be here in your country having the privilege to speak to you and to explain to you also why we are here and what we are planning to achieve in the future.

I was about 7 – just after the war – that was the first time I got in a way in direct contact with your country! I still remember – like it had been yesterday – the big care parcel my mother collected at Xmas. It was obvious at that age I could not really understand why your country and population could be so generous to us right after the terrible war which we had barely survived. I was stunned by this generosity and I still am today.

Only a few years later George Marshall – for me the greatest military man in your country of the latest century – started the so called Marshall-plan. This plan was a great help to Europe, but also to Germany. This plan made a huge contribution to the economical recovery of my country.

As of this moment my admiration and my curiosity for your country started. At this time I used to be a frequent visitor of the so-called “America-house” in my home town. I was delighted about the free films I could see and books we could borough also for free. This certainly increased even further my curiosity and it was clear to me from this very moment: I absolutely had to see your country one day!

To make a long story short – it was obviously an US company I started to work with right after getting my university degree as a chemist. I joined Procter & Gamble and ought to tell you this was a great experience for me. I could never having done what I did later in my life without all what I was taught in this wonderful company. But although I am still grateful, I also had some hurting experience, because I was refused can you imagine a transfer by P&G to the US, for which I was almost begging. I was sent to Belgium instead, which was not quite what I wanted – although I did of course appreciate. But this kind of disappointment filled me up with a little anger and ambition likewise. I swore to myself “I am going to get this transfer one day”. As you might guess now, I am not the guy to take “no” for an answer.

Well, today is the day when I could proudly say I have fulfilled this promise to myself. We are here today to open our first facility outside Germany and this is the result of a dream which started when I was a little boy back in Germany 60 years ago. This is also the day when a new dream has started.

This dream means giving back to this country something of that what I had received from it and building up at the same time the leading US company for precision cleaning and services in the electronic industry. Since we have already achieved this No. 1 position worldwide I am pretty sure that we will get there in this country as well in the near future.

Why am I so sure about it?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I am blessed with a son who is at least as ambitious as I used to be and on top of this he has shown over the past 5 years that he has all the competence, abilities and the stamina to achieve the goals he had been setting for himself. I am the proud father of Harald who has brought ZESTRON US to what is it today. He will be the guy to make sure my second dream come true and he is the guy whom I now invite to talk to you personally. Thank you again for coming and listening to an elderly guy from old Germany proud as can be.”